Would you respect your child's religious preference? (Christian, believe, service)
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Would you respect your child's religious preference? If my children chose to convert to a "worldy" religion like Buddhism, Islam, atheism, etc, then no I could not respect my child's religious preferences.
If you were devoutly religious and your teenager stopped believing would you respect their decision? No, I'd be disappointed mostly.
Would you still force them to go to church? Maybe.
I wouldn't mind if my kids converted to another Protestant denomination like Methodism or Anglicism, but I would prefer my kids stay Baptist. I would also expect my kids to marry and have kids with other Baptists as well.
"Liberal" Los Angeles, %religious, 53%
"Bible Belt" Huntsville, AL %religious, 51%
United States %religious 48%
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To be fair, I think Huntsville is an outlier in the Bible Belt. I grew up 20 miles south of there, across the river, and the differences are staggering. Huntsville is a town full of relatively well off engineers and scientists, lots of higher education and less religiosity than the surrounding environs. For example, Decatur which is the nearest large town to Huntsville, is 69.68% religious. Birmingham is 83.87% religious!
There really is a major difference in religious attitudes in the deep south.
Would you respect your child's religious preference? If my children chose to convert to a "worldy" religion like Buddhism, Islam, atheism, etc, then no I could not respect my child's religious preferences.
If you were devoutly religious and your teenager stopped believing would you respect their decision? No, I'd be disappointed mostly.
Would you still force them to go to church? Maybe.
I wouldn't mind if my kids converted to another Protestant denomination like Methodism or Anglicism, but I would prefer my kids stay Baptist. I would also expect my kids to marry and have kids with other Baptists as well.
Are you really that intolerant of others?
My greatgrandmother and grandmother go to a baptist church, my mom went to a Methodist church but no longer believes and doesn't go anymore, my boyfriend and I are atheist/agnostic, neither of us believe in anything and it would take some serious proof to get us to believe something, which will never happen.
At 22 I lead a totally different life than my great grandmother did at 22, she was married and already had a child.
At 27/23 respectively my boyfriend and I are living together and have for a few years, plans to get married one day and no kids.
Guess what? Nobody is disappointed in anyone, we all get along we don't try and shove our different beliefs down each others throats and she tells me everything I go over to her house how proud of me she is and how she is so happy I am back and how much she loves me.
the OP and others who condemn Christian parents for teaching their beliefs to their children would very likely have a whole different opinion of Islamic parents, or Hindu parents, or Wiccan parents, etc doing the same.
I doubt it. If a person thinks Marlboro is bad for you, they probably also think Winston and Camel are bad for you too.
Would you respect your child's religious preference? If my children chose to convert to a "worldy" religion like Buddhism, Islam, atheism, etc, then no I could not respect my child's religious preferences.
If you were devoutly religious and your teenager stopped believing would you respect their decision? No, I'd be disappointed mostly.
Would you still force them to go to church? Maybe.
I wouldn't mind if my kids converted to another Protestant denomination like Methodism or Anglicism, but I would prefer my kids stay Baptist. I would also expect my kids to marry and have kids with other Baptists as well.
That's sad. I'm an atheist and my children are free to explore any religion they choose. I have joined them in several different religious studies. As long as they are happy, I am happy.
As someone who desires to see a waning of religious/superstitious belief, I fully support parents forcing their questioning teenagers to go to church against their will.
As someone who desires to see a waning of religious/superstitious belief, I fully support parents forcing their questioning teenagers to go to church against their will.
That makes no sense, you wish to see a decline in religious beliefs yet you support people forcing teens to go to church?
That makes no sense, you wish to see a decline in religious beliefs yet you support people forcing teens to go to church?
Makes.No.Sense.
I believe his point was, if you force teens to do something, they'll be bound and determined to rebel and hate it.
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